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Duke  University  Libraries 
Southern  Guard! 
Conf  Pam  #753 

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SOUTHERN  GUARDIAN 

EXTRA. 


The  Secession  Ordinance   Passed. 


CHARLESTOJS^,  December  20,  1860. 

The  following  Ordinance  has  just  been  adopted  unanimously  : 
''  We,  the  People  of  the  State  of   South   Carolina,  in  Convention  as- 
sembled, do  declare  and  ordain,  and  it  is  hereby  declared  and  ordained — 

1st.  That  the  Ordinance  adopted  by  us  in  Convention  on  the  twenty-third 
day  of  May,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
eighty-eight,  (1788)  whereby  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of 
America  was  ratified;  and  also  all  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  of  the 
General  Assembly  of  this  State,  ratifying  Amendments  of  the  said  Consti  - 
tution,  are  hereby  repealed,  and  that  the  Union  now  subsisting  between 
South  Carolina  and  the  other  States,  under  the  name  of  the  United  States 
of  America,  is  hereby  DISSOLVED. 


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